Zheng Guo could not run up his short stack anymore and busted, same just happened to Yan Li as well. It remains unclear how she lost most of the chips early on Day 2 but the remaining 30,000 went in preflop with against the of Meng Dian Peng. The flop gave both players something with top pair and a flush draw.
However, it wasn't meant to be for Li as the turn and river both bricked.
First Rajeev Raut, who started the day as third in chips, lost most of it to Kim Wittendorff after check-jamming an eight-high flop with pocket sixes and the Dane snapped him off with pocket tens. Then, Raut shoved from under the gun with pocket threes and failed to improve against the pocket eights of Guiseppe Reina.
Thomas Ward's second attempt to knock out table neighbor Sam Chuan Aik Nee was successful while Eddy Liang also stacked up nicely in the first 40 minutes of Day 2.
World Series of Poker Asia Pacific Main Event champion Scott Davies first lost with pocket kings to the pocket deuces of Makoto Yoshimichi and was then all in for his last 62,000 with . Start-of-the-day chip leader Sheng Sun called with but the American got lucky on a board of .
Instead of the usual visit of the host city of an APPT Main Event, this time around the crew took the boat to Hong Kong. Take a look at rainy Hong Kong, one of the busiest cities in the world, and a true metropole.
While writing down the last two bustouts, Seng Yee Leow and Yuanji Dai have been eliminated. From what we could gather, Leow's failed to improve against Jack Hu's and the latter is up to 320,000 chips.
Short stack Baruch Szerer moved all in for a few big blinds with the and was unfortunate to find Dejan Boskovic in one seat ovr, holding the . There was a glimpse of hope on the flop, but neither the turn nor the river changed anything.
The hope of Scott Davies for another title in Asia Pacific is still alive after three-bet shoving his pocket sixes. Dejan Boskovic had raised to 12,000 and called off for just over 130,000 chips with the . The flop gave the Australian a world of outs but running eights sent the chips to Davies. They had to count the stacks to make sure Boskovic was covered though.
Devan Tang has finally shown up and raised with his tiny stack to find a caller in Guiseppe Reina. Both players checked the flop before Reina check-folded to another bet worth 12,000 by Tang on the turn.
After a multi-way flop of , Percy Yung check-raised all in with for top pair and Makoto Yoshimichi ended up calling with the for middle pair whereas the other opponent(s) mucked. Both turn and river bricked to send Yung back up in the chip counts.